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What is in the Biden McCarthy dealto raise the debt limit? It
was sort of going to happen anyway, because both President Biden and Kevin McCarthy,
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Speaker of the House, said thatnot raising the debt limit as a
non starter. There was no chanceit was not going to happen. However,
it was actually a fight, andheretofore that vote to raise the debt
limit, allowing the United States toborrow money to pay its bills, bills
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already incurred. Have always been thatBilly has always been clean. Politics were
not attached to it, and nowguess what happens. Politics became attached to
it. And over the weekend,the President and the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
announced the deal to increase the government'sdebt limit and to avoid a debt default
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and economic turmoil. How about economicdoes and here we knew what was going
to happen. Both the President andMcCarthy and their allies are framing the deal
as victories. Everybody's winning on thisone, and everybody's losing. McCarthy pointed
that out that this is compromise,and unfortunately, in today's political climate,
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Republicans Democrats don't compromise. A compromiseis considered a loss, A compromise is
considered caving in, and legislation isall about compromise. That's what it's about.
Okay, So what is the deal? Well, some temporary fiscal changes.
McCarthy did agree to extend the increasingdebt sealing by two years, so
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they're not going to talk about ituntil after the presidential in twenty twenty four.
And that means that Trump, who'sprobably going at the nomination at least
I see it, and the presidentwho's running again will now have to deal
with it. The clause back thirtybillion dollars and unused funds from the emergency
COVID nineteen relief packages. Now,I want to point something out, the
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amount of money that was spent inthe stimulus packages, the amount of fraud
that occurred in the hundreds of billionsof dollars unlimited amounts of money. They're
still thirty billion left in the fundthat was unspent. All right, here's
one that I just don't understand.Last year, the Democrats put eighty billion
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dollars into the IRS and that wasthrough the Inflation Reduction Act. And what
it was for is enabling the IRSto modernize its operations, become more aggressive
and tax collection. And guess whatthe Republican said, no, thank you,
no thanks for that funding boost forthe service, claiming that middle income
Americans could see an uptick in auditing. Don't mention a word about the rich
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and corporation. See, they wouldsee an uptick only middle American income,
middle income Americans, which by theway they're making up, there's no proof
of that at all. And soMcCarthy clawed back twenty billion dollars of that
money. Now the Democrats don't likeit, saying it's going to benefit wealthy
people and swell the deficit. Buthere is the choice. They preferred it
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to the threatened cuts and entitlements forlow income people, also climate change that
keeps ongoing, and maybe the Republicanswill be able to sell it. The
deal did not gut the four hundredbillion dollars student loan cancelation, but it
forbus the administration from unilaterally suspending studentloan payments after the end of August,
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because that's what Biden did. ActuallyTrump started it. He started saying during
his administration saying, you don't haveto pay back loans, We're going to
freeze loan payments, which made alot of sense during COVID. Well,
the president current president says, Iagree, and just kept on extending it.
I was looking at and saying there'snever going to be a repayment back.
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And so Biden has repeatedly extended thesuspension and last August announced the limited
cancelation program, and then that's inthe lawsuit too, and then the snap
work requirements. This is the foodstamp program. It's going to phase in
temporary work requirements for adults up toage fifty four. Right now, the
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current law requires adults up to ageforty nine to meet work requirements, and
now it is up to age fiftyfour. So more people are going to
have to meet these work requirements.Homeless Americans, veterans, adults in foster
programs up to the age twenty fourwill be exempt. So who is fighting
this? There are a couple,They're a handful of right wing Republican lawmakers.
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They're opposing the deal outright, justoutright. I'll tell you who is,
even though he has absolutely no influence. Is Ronda Santis said the deal
doesn't do enough to change the fiscaltrajectory. After this deal, he said,
our country will still be careening towardsbankruptcy. Yeah, I don't get
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it. And it's a ninety ninepage bill. This someone has read,
of course not and it is kindof a deal had to be made.
We have to outside of everything else, we have to be able to borrow
the money to pay our bills.It's that simple. Otherwise we go into
a form of bankruptcy. Now,the federal government can't go bankrupt by law,
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states can. Did you know whata state could go bankrupt? Do
you know a county can go bankrupt? The city can go bankrupt. I
think it was Stockton went bankrupt.County, Orange County went bankrupt. Utilities
have gone bankrupt, but not thefederal government. A story that I have
talked about many times is about policeagencies and how they are understaffed around the
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country, and it is getting worsebecause frankly, no one wants the job
anymore. The San Francisco Police Departmentis down more than six hundred officers,
thirty percent of its allotment. Phoenixneeds about five hundred more officers. The
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DC police force is smaller than it'sbeen in fifty years, and gun violets
and carjackings are up, and officersare leaving way faster than they can be
replaced, and police departments across thecountry struggling, struggling, struggling to fill
their ranks. And it's to thepoint where it is an emergency that threatens
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public safety. And I'm not sayingthat current and former police officials say that,
and you're talking about city councils sayingthat it's an exodus the federal officers.
And I'll tell you when it allstarted and may have twenty twenty,
and what happened in May of twentytwenty, the murder of George Floyd,
and what ended up happening is thatpolice departments all over the country we're painted
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with a very broad brush. Now, I also want to say that accountability
was brought to the forefront, thatit is I think a lot harder today
for police to use excessive force.So there are some good points to accountability
and certainly looking at police forces witha microscope. But as is always when
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the pendulum swings, it always swingstoo far. So what's going on will
increase hostility for the communities at thepolice. Police criminal justice laws that seek
to reduce the number of people injail a philosophy. I don't want to
mention any names. George Gascone whobelieve that criminals would be rehabilitated and they're
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people too, and they can bevaluable members of society. So how do
advocates for police reform look at this? Well, they're seeing this as an
opportunity to hire a whole new generationof officers and reimagining policing where everybody loves
everybody. It's a very Kumbaya lookat society. We get the right cops
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in there, and we get copsthat love people and are loved by people.
That's the way policing should be.I think they look at old time
policing where you had the cop outon the beat, where it was the
same police officer who walked the beat, who knew everybody in the neighborhood,
who everybody respected. That the freefood, the free donuts. Everybody thought
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the cop had dandruff. He didn't. It was powdered sugar. And that
was the kind of policing at weloved. But those days are so gone.
So what's happening. You got peopleleaving, You got cops leaving like
crazy. So the police agencies areseeking fresh recruits. And the only way
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they're getting even the minimal number ofpolice officers and I mean far less than
they need, is the qualify.The qualifications have dropped, lowering the bar.
Now. One of the things,for example, is Steve Gregory will
tell you this, to become asheriff or to become an LAPD officer.
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The bar is still high. Imean, they've changed some rules. You
could have smoked marijuana in the past. You could have tattoos that here before
you couldn't have as long as they'recovered up. And it's okay. There
are certain things that are right,but the basic the basic bar for being
a cop has not changed. Thepost exam is as hard as it was,
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the psychological exam is as hard asit was. The physical requirements are
as hard as they were, Sothat part is good. A Sheriff Tom
Dart of Cook County, for example, real problem, they're shorter, more
than three hundred officers. We're havingto work really really hard to feel what
we have and we're still not fillingat the rate we want. So let's
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talk about Cook County. They havea five thousand in mate jail and they
can't afford to cut corners on thatone volts because of the law, because
of the judges, and for safetyreasons. So what happens They take those
officers and they take them away fromthe patrol division. And on top of
that, smaller police departments, let'ssay in the villages and towns are also
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shorthanded, and they have asked CookCounty cops to fill in, so it's
a double hit. So it justcan't be done. And it's just getting
just beyond worse and worse, andit's become it's you're going to see something
happen right now, all you're hearingis the amount of or the lack of
prosecutions that are going on because thejails are too crowded because of the law
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is too lenient. How we passProp forty seven, How DA's like George
Gasco and thank goodness he is inthe minority, are dealing with prosecutions.
But it's now reached the point wherepublic safety is truly at risk. And
for those people that are arguing weneed a new kind of police department,
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we have to reimagine the police department. Fewer officers, more de escalation training,
social workers that should be on thestreets instead of police officer or in
conjunction with police officers. You know, I'd love to see what happened.
Here's what I'd love to see happen. Is one of those advocates for the
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reimagining of police departments. Now,keeping mind, I am fine with the
escalation training I am fine with allof that. I think that it's necessary.
I abdicate that. But I'd likeone or two of these people to
have a burglar come into the houseand start calling nine to one one there's
someone in my house. There's someonethat's broken in and there are no police
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officers. Sorry, And that hashappened. So in April, the Justice
Department US Justice Department assembled about twodozen policing organizations department chiefs, labor bosses,
nonprofit leaders, and the recommendations areexpected this year. Now. The
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head of this group, Associate AttorneyGeneral Venita Gupta, said any solutions have
to go hand in hand with apolice accountability and constitutional policing. I got
it, they're right, but youcan't have the pendulum swing this far and
it's going to bite us in theass, truly. But I'll tell you
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what is pretty big news, andthat is what's going on with the January
six rioters. So let me giveyou a story. Two months after he
pleaded guilty to storming the US capital, Daniel Goodwin appeared on the Tucker Carlson
when he was then on Fox andpromoted a website where supporters could donate money
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to him and other rioters, andthe site called them all political prisoners.
Okay, so he raises twenty fivethousand dollars, the Justice Department wants him
to give up strangely enough, twentyfive thousand dollars that he raised. And
this is a callback, And it'sa growing effort by the government on a
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couple of levels. Number one,to prevent them from being able to personally
profit from participating in the attack.For example, some of sam law which
was written and this is New Yorkand I think it's federal. Also that
if you have participated in the crimeand you write a book about it and
you become notorious, that money doesnot go to you. You're not allowed
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to have it. So that's oneissue. The other issue is if the
public defender, if the rioter decidesor the writer applies the riot, her
decides to apply for public assistance,go to the public defender because he doesn't
have any money. Well, ifhe raises money for his defense, then
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guess what he has money for hisdefense And he can't argue I'm destitute and
can't afford to pay for an attorney. So the prosecutors in more than a
thousand criminal cases from the January sixriot are increasingly asking judges to impose fines
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on top of the prison sentences tooffset those donations, and dozens of these
defendants have set up the online fundraisingappeals to help with legal fees, including
those at claim their destitute and thegovernment is paying for their legal defense.
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Now prosecutors say, oh yeah,there's nothing wrong with asking for help for
attorney expenses, but there is somethingwrong and saying I'm poor and all of
a sudden, I've got a pileof money to pay for my defense,
and the Justice Department is really questioningthis. Now, there is one website
that really raises this money, iscalled Give Send Go, and it builds
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itself as the number one free Christianfundraising site, and it's become the number
one go to for the January sixthdefendants. They can't use the other sites.
Go fund me won't let them on, and other mainstream crowdfunding sites simply
say no thank you. So thisone was set up and the rioters almost
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universally portrayed themselves as victims of governmentoppression, even as they're cutting deals to
plead guilty, recognize their wrongdoing,showing remorse cooperating with prosecutors. At the
same time they're doing that, they'reon these websites saying that they are victims
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of government suppression. And what doesthis show us that there are a whole
lot of people in the United Statesstill view the January six rioters as patriots
and still and this is we knowthis cling to the belief that the Democrats
stole the presidential election from Donald Trump. And what makes it even more delicious,
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if you will, Donald Trump hassaid if he is re elected president
of the United States, he willpardon most of the rioters because he views
them also as political prisoners. There'sa Virginia, Virginia man, Marcus Malley,
who is scheduled to be sentenced nextmonth for assaulting the police capital.
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He's raised more than sixteen thousand dollarsfrom an online campaign and that describes him
as a January six pow and askedfor money for his family. Mally had
a public defender and did not oweany legal fees, and he is asking
what At least he's smart enough tosay, I need the money to feed
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my family. That's not for legalthat's not for legal fees. A prosecutor
wrote, he should not be ableto use his own notoriety gained in the
commission of this crime to capitalize onhis participation. And judges are listening to
this too. So far, onehundred and twenty five thousand dollars I have
been levied in fines against thirty threeriot defendants this year. And on top
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of that, judges are ordering hundredsof these convicted riot to pay more than
half a million dollars in restitution tothe government. So right now we're seeing
these serious, massive charges, verylong prison terms. One just got eighteen
years ahead of the oath keepers andor as the Proud Boys, and as
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their sentence. They also tend tobe just huge prolific fundraisers. Nathaniel de
Grave another one was sentenced to threeyears and was ordered to pay twenty five
thousand dollars and he raised and theprosecutors saying the word incredible. He raised
over one hundred and twenty thousand dollarsin this Give Send Go fundraising and that
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and the description of him is thathe is Beijing Biden's political prisoner in America's
get MO. And the part thatI find just do I use the word
chilling, not really, but certainlydistressing is that these guys and women also
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plead guilty, show remorse, saythey're sorry, actually cooperate with the government,
and then turn around and go outsideand raise money saying they're political prisoners.
I mean, the sheer hypocrisy.But I guess it doesn't matter.
When you are a political prisoner,you'll say anything. It's like you're being
tortured. Same thing if you've beencaught by the enemy during wartime, and
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you'll say anything. And I thinkthat's the way they are portraying it.
Moving to the border, this isan article that was written in the New
York Times by this woman, DarrylLynde. Now to start off with,
and I looked at this and Ithought there were some good points here that
I want to bring up that Ihadn't seen before. Now let's start disclaim
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her time here. She's a seniorfellow at the Immigration or the American Immigration
Council. Let's just say she isvery pro immigration and now particularly a fan
of America, so the American policy, So let's take that into effect.
But she brings up a couple ofpoints that I want to share with you.
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As you know, last month wasthe end of Title forty two,
which allowed the FEDS to expel unauthorizedborder crossers without letting them ask for asylum
based on national security issue. Andthe national security issue was bringing back Title
forty two, which was past nineteenforty four, and in this case it
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was because of health reasons. Itwas COVID. Trump administration said we are
not going to allow people in becauseof the fear of immigrants coming in with
COVID, and that while that soundshorrible, the Biden administration kept on going
with it. So for those people, Oh, the Trump is terrible on
this one. Hey, look atBiden too. He did the same thing
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until the end of Title forty two, which happened last month. So what
is going on? You know thatthere is now an asylum lottery. That's
what's happening. It is a straightout lottery. And this happens to be
one of the fair solutions that areout there. Why because of the mismatch
between the number of people that wantto claim asylum and the government's capacity to
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receive those people. And this becomesa real swirling mess. It becomes a
cyclone of a problem because the answeris to give more assets, more money,
more people. The program expanded toallow people to claim asylum. Well,
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the more people that are allowed toclaim asylum, the more people are
going to come to the border toclaim asylum. And why is that.
Well, because a lot of theworld is a toilet. That's why the
number one that you think that it'dbe Mexico that would be literally providing the
greatest number of immigrants claiming asylum.Well, first of all, that's not
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true because it's almost impossible for aMexican claim asylum. So you have the
number one group of people Venezuelans.Venezuela used to be the richest country in
South America. It was extraordinary andI had the pleasure of going to Venezuela
during that time when it was thisrich, wonderful country. Caracas the capitol,
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I mean, it was like Paris, broad boulevards, extraordinary stores and
people walking up and down the boulevard. It was just amazing, tons of
money because they had oil and lotsof it. Well, then you had
the Chavism and is ration come inelected straight out communist and was elected,
and he became a death spot andhe died of cancer and his hands elected
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replacement was Maduro, who is alsoa straight out communist, nationalized everything.
Anybody with money, anybody with educationleft and now business is a fraction of
what it was. And here iswhy the election keeps ongoing, because the
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number of poor people grows and grows, and the government subsidizes the people who
have no money with bread, subsidizesand with flour, with cooking oil,
gas, gasoline. How much itWhat was the last time I looked at
the price of gas in Venezuela.I think it's like thirty cents a gallon
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or fifteen cents a gallon, completelysubsidized by the government. So you have
these people, and Venezuela is simplyone of the kind trees. You have
Guatemala, you have Enduras, youhave people in the lower part of Mexico
that are trying. There was thattriangle with the three countries coming together.
It is now a desert where itused to be this great agricultural area.
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I mean, it is horrible.So now you have untold number of people
that are coming up and trying toget in the United States. And the
problem with asylum for most of thesepeople is if they're starving, they're not
eligible. Starvation is not an issue. I mean, you could be there
as a skeleton, literally starving todeath, and you try to get into
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the country and you're not gonna doit. It's political persecution. It is
a fear of the narco trafic contentswho have killed half your family. It
is persecution bay based on you beinggay. That's allowed in. So you
go up to the border and youclaim you want asylum, and the problem
is you are not going to getin because this is a lottery and it
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chooses who's allowed to apply for asylum. And hundreds of slots today are assigned
to people waiting on the Mexican sideof the border. They sign up using
the CBP one app run by Customersand Border Protection, and they have every
twenty four hours. There are aboutone hundred slots or a couple hundred slots.
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The chances of getting in are almostimpossible, almost impossible. Now.
The government says that the slots areawarded based on an algorithm that gives more
weight to those people who've been tryingfor an appointment the longest. But a
lot of that is random, alot of that is pure luck. And
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if you don't get it today,so you go on at midnight, and
of course by twelve oh one it'sall filled up. By a twelve and
thirty seconds, it's all filled up. And then you have to go the
next day. And there are peoplethey're waiting weeks and weeks and months and
months, and that's the only wayin. And if you try to go
over illegally, which most people do, that is well you can't. You
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are tossed out of the country andyou can't come in for five years.
So only people who have preregistered forappointments of ports are allowed to seek asylum
without facing other hurdles. And everyonehas to meet a higher standard to number
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one, apply for asylum and facingimmigration judge. And on that one it
can take nine months, two yearsto even face a judge. And that
includes people who cross between ports ofentry. I'm talking about illegally, and
that is unlawful entry and you gettossed out for that. Now, people
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who present themselves at port of entryand lack and they're asking for asylum,
but they don't have an appointment,no chance, no chance. So it
is so difficult. And what isthe Biden administration going to do with that
one? Well, one of theanswers is and I said earlier in the
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monologue is just pour more money,of which the government of course is not
giving the border patrol customers and borderpatrol more money because I also keep in
mind, it's just it's not justpeople crossing the border. There's almost two
billion dollars a day coming into UnitedStates or Mexico Mexico with the trucks and
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the goods that are being shipped,and they have to deal with those two
and keep in mind the amount ofdrugs that are being brought in. I
mean, it is a mess.And the answer is, well, you
know, how much more money canyou pour? And it's the same thing
with homeless. The more let's say, permanent housing that are given to the
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homeless, the more people are goingto be applying for permanent housing. I
mean, it's a constant battle,it really is, and it's all going
to be incremental, although at theborder I don't think that's incremental at all.
Now, it is time for TechTuesday with Rich Damuro all the latest
on gadgets and stuff with KF ViceResident Handsome Nerd. It's Tech Tuesday with
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Rich Jamiro and welcome appward. RichDeMuro rich on Tech every Saturday eleven to
two o'clock here on KFI and hisaddress social address at rich on Tech.
Good morning, rich Good morning toBill Ooh. Let's start with AI that
we've been talking about for months andthere's a lot more conversation going on.
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I just read a story about howAI is now being used, and I
mean being used a lot in theadvertising business, where they're moving fullboard with
AI in terms of graphics, interms of writing copy. And this story
about AI leaders. AI leaders arewarning that the tech could be as dangerous
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as even a pandemic or war.And do you take this as seriously as
they do. I do. Infact, you know, I'm not typically
one of these people who is,you know, put the tinfoil on the
windows when it comes to stuff.But I do believe that AI has been
transformative in the past six months oreight months, that we've seen it in
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a big way, and we arejust at the beginning. And so imagine
the things that people are going tobe using this for. You just said
advertising that just sells us stuff,But imagine when someone is trying to figure
out how they can create a robotwith an AI brain. And I know
It sounds like science fiction, butthat's exactly what you can imagine. Military
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and governments and pretty much anyone willbe interested in creating. And this is
a letter, an open letter fromthe folks set Open Ai, Google,
Deep Mind, and Thropic. Theseare three big AI companies. They're setting
out a new letter today that's warningabout this threat to society basically and saying
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that governments need to take this seriously. I don't think anyone has the answer
as to what we need to dojust yet, it's so early on,
but I think we just need tobe aware of the fact that this has
big, big implications for everyone onthis planet. Has AI been used in
the fair within the farious motives yet, Like we know robocalling, we know
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scams out there, but has AIreached into that world of robo calls or
just outright fraud and scams right Well, we haven't heard any huge, you
know, reports just yet of peopleusing this for malware, but I think
that's where this is headed. Sonot only can AI target use specifically based
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on information that it knows about you, but it can also target your computer
in a much easier way and amuch bigger way than we've seen and so
I think that that's the concern onthat front, because, like you said,
people will be using this for goodstuff, but they're also going to
be using it for really, reallybad stuff. And again we are just
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at the beginning. I mean,these texts that we get that you're worried
about and I'm worried about, arestill pretty basic. But imagine when they've
collected all of the data that theycan find on us online and then they
make that specific for every single personthey target, and it's just someone programming
a tiny you know, a tinyprogram that uses AI to do that.
I mean, it's it's really scarystuff when you talk when I think about
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it. So let me do thisand ask you a question that I've been
thinking about, and that is whenwe talk about science fiction and we talk
about robotics coming in, we talkabout creating the robot. There is the
old maxim Here are the rules ofrobotics harm no human? Just follow number
one and then number three is numberone? Again? Is that a croc
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Well, I mean, look numberone. If you're talking war, then
I don't think that that applies,does it. I don't know. We
build stuff all the time that harmshumans. Yeah, but does a I
do that well? And it's goingto develop so in reality, And obviously
I'm being a little hyperbolic and beinga little science fiction e here, But
in the end, if AI isgoing to be used to create new weaponry,
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create a new ability to deliver thoseweapons, there's no limit to it.
Yeah, and that's the scary part. And also, you know,
you also have to keep in mindthat we're talking about rules that apply to
people that want to follow rules andgovernments that want to follow rules. There's
a lot of people out there thatdon't follow the rules. There's a lot
of people that would be building thisstuff independently and selling this technology to governments
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much much in the same way thatthat happens today. I think the real
danger here is the fact that thisdevelopment has happened so fast, and we've
seen the evolution of AI in somany ways. I mean, if you
look at photos, just photos andvideos, photo already has just had a
huge impact. You know, Adobelast week came out with their solution as
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to how they're going to use AI, and people are posting pictures online that
are just absolutely incredible that they createdin a minute. And so now we're
going to see the same thing withvideo, and it just keeps going from
there. It just keeps keeps building, and every single company is going to
adopt this technology to save money.Every single industry is going to look at
it to see how it can affectthem and affect us, and then of
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course governments and all this other stuffas well. Just wrote an article about
students using AI to write papers,and I mean it happens instantaneously. And
I heard that and there was apoint counterpoint that there are AI program that
can see if AI was written towrite though, if AI was used to
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write those papers, is there validityto that? Have you heard of that?
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I'vegot Oh gosh, I got to
look it up because it's it's ait's a tool that you can put in
I'm almost mentioned this on my radioshow. I didn't get to it.
I've got to look it up.But there is a tool that for students
that write papers, you can literallyjust pop their paper into this tool and
you know, it will tell youif the student wrote this or not.
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And oh, here it is.Here's the tool GPT zero. So GPT
zero dot me. You can takesome text, you can paste it in
there, and it will tell youif chat GBT wrote it, if Bard
wrote it, if an AI plusa human wrote it. And there are
bill at schools across the country rightnow, people dealing with the fact that
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students are writing their papers using this, and the students don't care because they
know that this this is the tablestakes for the future, that you're going
to get a rough raft of whateveryou want and now it's up to you
to kind of make it your own. So in the future it's going to
be not even a big deal thatthis is happening, because we've got to
figure out other ways of evaluating humanbeings. And how many papers we wrote
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and sat down night after night,all right, Rich, we still have
plenty of stuff to talk about.Boarding passes at the boarding gate and I
just sort of started using my iPhoneto do it, although I always press
the wrong button. I have tobring it back up or I will print
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out my ticket, my boarding passat the house on the printer. What's
going on with that? Are theyeven going to allow paper boarding passes anymore?
Well, that's interesting. They haven'ttotally done away with them, and
I'm surprised that I'm actually happy tohear that you still have a printer,
because a lot of people do nothave a printer anymore at home. They're
just they either print at work orthey just don't have one. And you
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know, we've definitely seen them.Mobile boarding pass. A majority of people
use the mobile boarding pass. Butinteresting article out of Wall Street Journal kind
of highlighting the folks who don't wantto use a boarding pass on their phone
or the airlines more importantly, thatare charging if you need to print one
out at the airport. So BreezeAirways three dollars if you want to print
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a boarding pass. Allegiant air fivedollars if you want to charge if you
want to do a boarding pass,unless you're a member of the military Spirit
in Frontier, you might pay asmuch as twenty five dollars if a customer
service rep has to print you aboarding pass. So the moral of the
story here, you don't want tobe nickel and dimed even more than you
already are at the airport printed outat home or if you use the mobile
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boarding pass. The thing that Iwould say, because some people are worried
about the mobile boarding pass with thesignal in the airport or if you're in
a different country. I typically printmine out if I'm going international, just
out of security and safety reasons.But for domestic stuff, if you put
it in Apple wallet or Google wallet, it will work even if you don't
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have a signal to Wi Fi orcellular. Crazy. I mean, it
is completely crazy. So if someoneactually has to print it and it takes
two seconds, but if you goto one of those kiosks and have it
printed, you're okay. Rights evenat Crazy Airlines. Funny you say that
they're actually removing the kiosks that printthough, So Alaska Airlines, for example,
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we're removing the kiosks that would allowyou to self print at the airport.
So the new kiosks are putting inare simply an iPad that only lets
you print your luggage, which,by the way, you are now tagging
yourself, so you can print thatout for free. But of course you'll
pay for the luggage tag. Butyou know they can't. They won't let
you print the boarding pass from thosethose kiosks anymore. Well, they're just
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trying to figure out every way tomake money. And I'm not exaggerating in
terms of using the bathroom Herod's,you know the department store in England,
when Dody Diade's father bought Herod's,they actually were charging a pound to get
into the bathroom, you know,a pound coin clean. If it's clean,
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I'll do it. I'm fine withthat because a lot of times,
you know these places, they justcut off the bathroom. They say,
sorry, no restroom for the public. If I have to pay a buck,
I mean I'm fine with that,Yeah, go ahead. I was
looking at air Fair yesterday and thenew trend with these airlines, and it's
not something that we haven't seen before, but we're seeing more and more of
it is the ultra cheap airline whereliterally you just get a seat and that's
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it and nothing else. I'm talkingthe one I took to Japan zip Air.
It was fantastic, but you onlygot a seat and everything else,
including water bill was a charge.But how much did you pay for it,
even with luggage and drinking a bottleof water? I mean, in
the end, I had to bea whole lot cheaper. Anyway, it
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was. It was incredibly cheap,in fact, for it was a live
flat seat, which you would payI think it was about seven thousand dollars
for a typical airline, and thisone was closer to two thousand and So
when you look at these flights,and I get so many emails from people
that are looking at flights to Tokyothat see my review come up and they
say, Rich, wait, what'sthe catch. There's no catch. It's
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just really inexpensive because you have tobe prepared. If you don't bring something
on that plane and you're not preparedto order something, then you are going
to starve because there is no nothingfree handed out whatsoever. Yeah, but
when you buy a sandwich. Oneof the things I did notice that when
you buy a sandwich on the airline'seight nine ten bucks, it's pretty good.
Actually, yeah, they've gotten alot better. I think I look
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forward to some of the food onthe planes. I don't mind it,
but here's the thing, so you'repaying for it, so it's a little
bit better. But you know,there are so many levels of flying at
this point. I think the fastestgrowing area though, are really these airlines
that people I was just looking lastnight. You could go to Europe on
this airline called Norse and it waslike I think it was one hundred and
ninety five dollars from LA to Londonone hundred and ninety five dollars for I
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think a one way ticket on that. Yeah, but you're not lying flat
and you're really next to the personthat is next to the person right.
Well, yes, but here's thething. They're flying these seven eighty sevens,
these Dreamliners, which are nice planes. I mean, yeah, they're
they're putting a lot of seats inthem. But you know, that's a
decent plane to fly across the Atlantic. And also, why not save your
(41:29):
money for when you get there.It's not that bad of a deal for
a lot of people. Yeah,that's true. At the end of it,
you're eleven hours and you have thrombosisand you're about to die because of
a blood clot. Small potatoes,small, small price to pay for the
you know, to see the changingof the guard there. Yeah, and
a blood clot. Let's not forgetthat. Okay. Next, we're gonna
talk about Apple and some news outthere, and of course Apple being Apple,
(41:52):
we have no idea what it reallyis. But the rumor, what's
the rumor? I like that youpreface hit with that. Yes, we
never Apple never cans anything until It'sup on stage on June fifth, which
is next Monday, or this Monday, whatever you want to look at it.
This Monday coming up, big eventat the Apple headquarters. Widely expected
to unveil their virtual reality slash augmentedreality headset. And we have a lot
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of headsets in the marketplace right now. Of course, this is Apple,
they will do things a little bitdifferently. They will get the developers behind
it. It's expected to cost aboutthree thousand dollars. We don't know when
it will go on sale or ifwe will even get to touch this thing
play with it. We don't know. But the reality is this might be
one of the biggest launches for Applein a long time. If this headset
(42:39):
is shown off next week. Howdid they keep that secret? I mean,
you have thousands of people that arein on it, or at least
hundreds of people, and for somereason we're not seeing one that's already been
leaked. Yeah, I mean,there's definitely been no pictures that I've seen,
but there's been a lot of informationthat we've seen. But the you
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know it, But the reality is, you know, there's a lot of
people that stand to make a lotof money on this thing, and they're
not going to spill the secrets.It's just people that you know, maybe
passing through that get access to someof this data. Some of the suppliers
over in China, we see alot of leaks through them. But no
matter what, it's rumored to bethree thousand dollars, it's rumored to be
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good but heavy, but expensive,and the battery will sit on your side
instead of on the headphones are theheadset itself because that's the way that some
of the other ones do it,and it just became too bulky apparently for
Apple. But it's not apparently it'snot where they want it to be,
Like, it's not perfect, butthey just need to get this thing out
of the gate so that they canstart to get people to adopt this technology
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in a big way. Yeah,I mean three thousand dollars. How does
that compare with Oculus and other VRheadsets? I mean the Oculus. You
can get an Oculus. They've actuallyraised the price on the Oculus last year.
I think it's about four hundred nowand then and then Oculus has a
high end version that is about fifteenhundred, So this is double the price
of the most expensive headset out there, but it's Apple, and you know
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they will have adoption onlike these otherheadsets which are good, but they haven't
seen the broad broad adoption. Ithink Apple, with their stores, people
can go in test them out,try them out, see what they can
do, and then you know,save up form. All right, Thank
you rich This Saturday eleven to twoo'clock at rich On Tech. Have a
good one, Rich Thanks Bill.This is a little bit more serious,
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and this has to do with vanishingbeaches here in California. And this is
the story out of the Orange CountyRegister because it deals with Orange County Newport
beats, for example, some ofthe priceest coastline homes in the country,
and there aren't going to be manybeaches left. As a matter of fact,
there is a study that just cameout and it was a report released
(44:52):
by the United States Geological Survey andit says by twenty one, the modeling
that's already been done estimates that twentyfive to seventy percent of California's eleven hundred
miles of coastline may be completely erodeddue to sea level rise scenarios. Now
(45:15):
for those people, and we hearthese dire predictions all the time. We
only have five years until the tippingpoint in terms of climate change. We
only have ten years by twenty thirty. By twenty thirty five will be over
the edge, and there's nothing canbe done about it. I believe we're
already there. Moreover, if wearen't already there, we are not going
(45:37):
to straighten this out. Because fossilfuels still being used by many, many
countries around the world, China beingone of them, even though they're ahead
of us in many of the technologies. India using coal like crazy, and
we're talking about what two three billionpeople those two countries, and more coal
(45:59):
fire plants are being built every singleday in those two countries and they haven't.
And these third world countries have ahell of an argument because they're saying,
wait a minute, you the UnitedStates and other industrialized country built these
huge, successful economies on coal,and now you want us not to use
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coal, and we're trying, we'restriving to have this industrial revolution of our
own. We want to reach thoselevels of industrialization. Good argument, it
really is. So what is goingon is you have Well, there was
just a meeting and it had todo with the officials of the Orange County
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Coastline. Folks. It was aSmart Coast California policy summit in Newport Beach
and they're trying just to deal withit. How do you deal with the
coastline simply disa peering Well here tofour. What they used to do is
just bring in sand. Coastline goes. You bring in a ton of sand
(47:07):
or tons of sand. But youknow what happens. It disappears again because
you have rising sea levels and theocean ghosts farther in. And are you
ready for this? One of thereal answers that they came up with.
And boy, I always joked aboutthis, except this is absolutely real,
(47:29):
and that is homes that are alongthe coast new homes should be built on
stilts like they do in Louisiana.And the buy you and you go,
well, when we've reached the pointwhen you have fourteen million dollars home in
Newport Beach on the water, andyou raise it, you buy it,
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and you're gonna build a new home, which is the only thing you can
do because of course there's no land, and there are people wealthy enough to
do that. Can you imagine this? You can get a permit, but
you have to build a home onstilts. I mean, come on.
But they're saying, this is theUS Geological Survey. This is real stuff.
At the turn of the century,at the turn of the century,
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twenty one hundred, you're gonna seeseventy percent of the coastline having literally just
disappeared. I'm not buying any coastcoastal homes. I've been saying that for
a very very long time. Nodoubt. We've all heard of Airbnb.
Have you ever rented from Airbnb?I have. I don't do it anymore
because it's just too damn expensive withall the craziness. I think I'm better
(48:37):
off at a hotel. But it'sstill huge Airbnb and Verbo or vrbo of
rebo, and so we know aboutthat. Now. There is an app
called swimplely swi mply, and whatit does is allow homeowners to rent out
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their pools to strangers. So youown a swimming pool, or someone who
doesn't own a swimming pool wants tohave a swim party, for example,
No they're six year old, they'retwelve year old, or just spending an
afternoon and you don't want to goto a public pool, because public pools
are completely disgusting. You know,you just don't know, well, you
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do know, it's in the water, and there's lots of people there,
so a lot of families aren't goingto let their kids anywhere. You're a
public pool. So what do youdo during the summer and you don't have
a pool? You're run one.You rent the pool, and you rent
the pool over there, let's sayeven a nicer neighborhood, nice big pool,
great outdoors. And as you canimagine, this is the story out
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of the Washington Post. Montgomery Countyin Maryland, a nice upscale county,
an area that fairly wealthy people live, is looking at this and saying,
hold on, we have to regulatethis. And this would be the first
county, the first governmental entity inthe nation to regulate rental pools. Because
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this is brand new. People comeup with apps all the time, and
all of a sudden, you're going, where are the laws that deal with
this? Because laws always follow technology. Technology is first, and then how
to deal with it is second.For example, the huge, far bigger
story than this, it's how we'regoing to regulate AI. And in front
(50:32):
of Congress, the CEO of chatGPT begged Congress to regulate the industry.
He said, you have to regulatethis so on a much lower level.
This has to do with renting pools. A Chevy Chase resident who went in
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front of the city council said,our entire block has been disturbed. It's
like having a pool club on thestreet. And already dozens of pools around
Maryland, and this is Montgomery County, the biggest county in Maryland. They've
been listed for rent on swimp Lely, which was launched in twenty twenty as
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people sought alternatives to public school publicpools. A lot of them are shut
down because of the pandemic. Andyou look at the successes of apps like
Airbnb and Uber and so you knowmuch money these people get for renting out
their pool anywhere from twenty five toone hundred dollars an hour. So you
went to pool for four hours,three hours, Okay, there's some money,
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and of course it's cash, andwhat people do is well, I
don't take advantage of it. Now, I've had some swim parties before.
I'll tell you the danger of thisstuff too. When you have a lot
of people, a lot of kidsswimming. And you know, many drownings
take place in pools full of kidsand parents there because no one pays attention.
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If some kid is drowning at theother end, someone's gonna jump in.
You're not paying attention because too manykids flopping around. I think I've
had three pool parties at my housefor my daughters when they were eight nine
years old. You know what Idid. I hired a lifeguard. I
hired a lifeguard to walk around withthose lifeguard floaty things and there was just
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no issue. And there was onekid that was flopping around a little bit
of trouble and a lifeguard jumped in, Not that there would have been a
big, huge deal, but jumpedright in because it can be dangerous.
Oh. The other thing I wantto point out is look at your insurance
policy at home, and if someonegets hurt, some kid drowns as a
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result of you renting out the pool, what do you think your insurance company
is going to say, no,thank you. So you know what Swimply
did, very smart of them todo it. They have their own insurance
policy. If someone rents out ofpool and some kid gets hurt drowns,
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then the insurance policy will pay offup to a million dollars. Now,
there are neighbors around the other issueshow much noise these things make. Again,
have you ever gone to or helda swim party with a bunch of
kids. Yeah, it gets prettyloud, and you've got parking, and
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you've got the noise, and youhave the neighbors going crazy, and so
it is going to what's going tohappen? Well, chevy Chase is considering
literally asking the county just outlaw theserentals altogether because they don't want to.
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These folks don't want their neighborhoods tobecome business centers, and that's what happens.
And there are a couple of instanceswhere kids have drowned in a through
the Swimpley app. Last June,there was a seven year old that was
drowned and still is under internal investigationby Swimpley. An Swimpley says that they've
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implemented some changes for safety purposes.For example, the company instructs hosts on
basic safety measures when they sign upfor the app, but does not give
specific safety instructions. Bottom line,here's a new one. Rent out your
pool makes sense, guys, acouple of extra dollars. So what kid
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What is in the Biden McCarthy dealto raise the debt limit? It
was sort of going to happen anyway, because both President Biden and Kevin McCarthy,
(01:10):
Speaker of the House, said thatnot raising the debt limit as a
non starter. There was no chanceit was not going to happen. However,
it was actually a fight, andheretofore that vote to raise the debt
limit, allowing the United States toborrow money to pay its bills, bills
(01:33):
already incurred. Have always been thatBilly has always been clean. Politics were
not attached to it, and nowguess what happens. Politics became attached to
it. And over the weekend,the President and the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
announced the deal to increase the government'sdebt limit and to avoid a debt default
(01:56):
and economic turmoil. How about economicdoes and here we knew what was going
to happen. Both the President andMcCarthy and their allies are framing the deal
as victories. Everybody's winning on thisone, and everybody's losing. McCarthy pointed
that out that this is compromise,and unfortunately, in today's political climate,
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Republicans Democrats don't compromise. A compromiseis considered a loss, A compromise is
considered caving in, and legislation isall about compromise. That's what it's about.
Okay, So what is the deal? Well, some temporary fiscal changes.
McCarthy did agree to extend the increasingdebt sealing by two years, so
(02:45):
they're not going to talk about ituntil after the presidential in twenty twenty four.
And that means that Trump, who'sprobably going at the nomination at least
I see it, and the presidentwho's running again will now have to deal
with it. The clause back thirtybillion dollars and unused funds from the emergency
COVID nineteen relief packages. Now,I want to point something out, the
(03:07):
amount of money that was spent inthe stimulus packages, the amount of fraud
that occurred in the hundreds of billionsof dollars unlimited amounts of money. They're
still thirty billion left in the fundthat was unspent. All right, here's
one that I just don't understand.Last year, the Democrats put eighty billion
(03:30):
dollars into the IRS and that wasthrough the Inflation Reduction Act. And what
it was for is enabling the IRSto modernize its operations, become more aggressive
and tax collection. And guess whatthe Republican said, no, thank you,
no thanks for that funding boost forthe service, claiming that middle income
Americans could see an uptick in auditing. Don't mention a word about the rich
(03:54):
and corporation. See, they wouldsee an uptick only middle American income,
middle income Americans, which by theway they're making up, there's no proof
of that at all. And soMcCarthy clawed back twenty billion dollars of that
money. Now the Democrats don't likeit, saying it's going to benefit wealthy
people and swell the deficit. Buthere is the choice. They preferred it
(04:20):
to the threatened cuts and entitlements forlow income people, also climate change that
keeps ongoing, and maybe the Republicanswill be able to sell it. The
deal did not gut the four hundredbillion dollars student loan cancelation, but it
forbus the administration from unilaterally suspending studentloan payments after the end of August,
(04:45):
because that's what Biden did. ActuallyTrump started it. He started saying during
his administration saying, you don't haveto pay back loans, We're going to
freeze loan payments, which made alot of sense during COVID. Well,
the president current president says, Iagree, and just kept on extending it.
I was looking at and saying there'snever going to be a repayment back.
(05:09):
And so Biden has repeatedly extended thesuspension and last August announced the limited
cancelation program, and then that's inthe lawsuit too, and then the snap
work requirements. This is the foodstamp program. It's going to phase in
temporary work requirements for adults up toage fifty four. Right now, the
(05:30):
current law requires adults up to ageforty nine to meet work requirements, and
now it is up to age fiftyfour. So more people are going to
have to meet these work requirements.Homeless Americans, veterans, adults in foster
programs up to the age twenty fourwill be exempt. So who is fighting
this? There are a couple,They're a handful of right wing Republican lawmakers.
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They're opposing the deal outright, justoutright. I'll tell you who is,
even though he has absolutely no influence. Is Ronda Santis said the deal
doesn't do enough to change the fiscaltrajectory. After this deal, he said,
our country will still be careening towardsbankruptcy. Yeah, I don't get
(06:16):
it. And it's a ninety ninepage bill. This someone has read,
of course not and it is kindof a deal had to be made.
We have to outside of everything else, we have to be able to borrow
the money to pay our bills.It's that simple. Otherwise we go into
a form of bankruptcy. Now,the federal government can't go bankrupt by law,
(06:39):
states can. Did you know whata state could go bankrupt? Do
you know a county can go bankrupt? The city can go bankrupt. I
think it was Stockton went bankrupt.County, Orange County went bankrupt. Utilities
have gone bankrupt, but not thefederal government. A story that I have
talked about many times is about policeagencies and how they are understaffed around the
(07:03):
country, and it is getting worsebecause frankly, no one wants the job
anymore. The San Francisco Police Departmentis down more than six hundred officers,
thirty percent of its allotment. Phoenixneeds about five hundred more officers. The
(07:24):
DC police force is smaller than it'sbeen in fifty years, and gun violets
and carjackings are up, and officersare leaving way faster than they can be
replaced, and police departments across thecountry struggling, struggling, struggling to fill
their ranks. And it's to thepoint where it is an emergency that threatens
(07:46):
public safety. And I'm not sayingthat current and former police officials say that,
and you're talking about city councils sayingthat it's an exodus the federal officers.
And I'll tell you when it allstarted and may have twenty twenty,
and what happened in May of twentytwenty, the murder of George Floyd,
and what ended up happening is thatpolice departments all over the country we're painted
(08:11):
with a very broad brush. Now, I also want to say that accountability
was brought to the forefront, thatit is I think a lot harder today
for police to use excessive force.So there are some good points to accountability
and certainly looking at police forces witha microscope. But as is always when
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the pendulum swings, it always swingstoo far. So what's going on will
increase hostility for the communities at thepolice. Police criminal justice laws that seek
to reduce the number of people injail a philosophy. I don't want to
mention any names. George Gascone whobelieve that criminals would be rehabilitated and they're
(09:01):
people too, and they can bevaluable members of society. So how do
advocates for police reform look at this? Well, they're seeing this as an
opportunity to hire a whole new generationof officers and reimagining policing where everybody loves
everybody. It's a very Kumbaya lookat society. We get the right cops
(09:26):
in there, and we get copsthat love people and are loved by people.
That's the way policing should be.I think they look at old time
policing where you had the cop outon the beat, where it was the
same police officer who walked the beat, who knew everybody in the neighborhood,
who everybody respected. That the freefood, the free donuts. Everybody thought
(09:52):
the cop had dandruff. He didn't. It was powdered sugar. And that
was the kind of policing at weloved. But those days are so gone.
So what's happening. You got peopleleaving, You got cops leaving like
crazy. So the police agencies areseeking fresh recruits. And the only way
(10:13):
they're getting even the minimal number ofpolice officers and I mean far less than
they need, is the qualify.The qualifications have dropped, lowering the bar.
Now. One of the things,for example, is Steve Gregory will
tell you this, to become asheriff or to become an LAPD officer.
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The bar is still high. Imean, they've changed some rules. You
could have smoked marijuana in the past. You could have tattoos that here before
you couldn't have as long as they'recovered up. And it's okay. There
are certain things that are right,but the basic the basic bar for being
a cop has not changed. Thepost exam is as hard as it was,
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the psychological exam is as hard asit was. The physical requirements are
as hard as they were, Sothat part is good. A Sheriff Tom
Dart of Cook County, for example, real problem, they're shorter, more
than three hundred officers. We're havingto work really really hard to feel what
we have and we're still not fillingat the rate we want. So let's
(11:22):
talk about Cook County. They havea five thousand in mate jail and they
can't afford to cut corners on thatone volts because of the law, because
of the judges, and for safetyreasons. So what happens They take those
officers and they take them away fromthe patrol division. And on top of
that, smaller police departments, let'ssay in the villages and towns are also
(11:46):
shorthanded, and they have asked CookCounty cops to fill in, so it's
a double hit. So it justcan't be done. And it's just getting
just beyond worse and worse, andit's become it's you're going to see something
happen right now, all you're hearingis the amount of or the lack of
prosecutions that are going on because thejails are too crowded because of the law
(12:13):
is too lenient. How we passProp forty seven, How DA's like George
Gasco and thank goodness he is inthe minority, are dealing with prosecutions.
But it's now reached the point wherepublic safety is truly at risk. And
for those people that are arguing weneed a new kind of police department,
(12:33):
we have to reimagine the police department. Fewer officers, more de escalation training,
social workers that should be on thestreets instead of police officer or in
conjunction with police officers. You know, I'd love to see what happened.
Here's what I'd love to see happen. Is one of those advocates for the
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reimagining of police departments. Now,keeping mind, I am fine with the
escalation training I am fine with allof that. I think that it's necessary.
I abdicate that. But I'd likeone or two of these people to
have a burglar come into the houseand start calling nine to one one there's
someone in my house. There's someonethat's broken in and there are no police
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officers. Sorry, And that hashappened. So in April, the Justice
Department US Justice Department assembled about twodozen policing organizations department chiefs, labor bosses,
nonprofit leaders, and the recommendations areexpected this year. Now. The
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head of this group, Associate AttorneyGeneral Venita Gupta, said any solutions have
to go hand in hand with apolice accountability and constitutional policing. I got
it, they're right, but youcan't have the pendulum swing this far and
it's going to bite us in theass, truly. But I'll tell you
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what is pretty big news, andthat is what's going on with the January
six rioters. So let me giveyou a story. Two months after he
pleaded guilty to storming the US capital, Daniel Goodwin appeared on the Tucker Carlson
when he was then on Fox andpromoted a website where supporters could donate money
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to him and other rioters, andthe site called them all political prisoners.
Okay, so he raises twenty fivethousand dollars, the Justice Department wants him
to give up strangely enough, twentyfive thousand dollars that he raised. And
this is a callback, And it'sa growing effort by the government on a
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couple of levels. Number one,to prevent them from being able to personally
profit from participating in the attack.For example, some of sam law which
was written and this is New Yorkand I think it's federal. Also that
if you have participated in the crimeand you write a book about it and
you become notorious, that money doesnot go to you. You're not allowed
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to have it. So that's oneissue. The other issue is if the
public defender, if the rioter decidesor the writer applies the riot, her
decides to apply for public assistance,go to the public defender because he doesn't
have any money. Well, ifhe raises money for his defense, then
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guess what he has money for hisdefense And he can't argue I'm destitute and
can't afford to pay for an attorney. So the prosecutors in more than a
thousand criminal cases from the January sixriot are increasingly asking judges to impose fines
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on top of the prison sentences tooffset those donations, and dozens of these
defendants have set up the online fundraisingappeals to help with legal fees, including
those at claim their destitute and thegovernment is paying for their legal defense.
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Now prosecutors say, oh yeah,there's nothing wrong with asking for help for
attorney expenses, but there is somethingwrong and saying I'm poor and all of
a sudden, I've got a pileof money to pay for my defense,
and the Justice Department is really questioningthis. Now, there is one website
that really raises this money, iscalled Give Send Go, and it builds
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itself as the number one free Christianfundraising site, and it's become the number
one go to for the January sixthdefendants. They can't use the other sites.
Go fund me won't let them on, and other mainstream crowdfunding sites simply
say no thank you. So thisone was set up and the rioters almost
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universally portrayed themselves as victims of governmentoppression, even as they're cutting deals to
plead guilty, recognize their wrongdoing,showing remorse cooperating with prosecutors. At the
same time they're doing that, they'reon these websites saying that they are victims
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of government suppression. And what doesthis show us that there are a whole
lot of people in the United Statesstill view the January six rioters as patriots
and still and this is we knowthis cling to the belief that the Democrats
stole the presidential election from Donald Trump. And what makes it even more delicious,
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if you will, Donald Trump hassaid if he is re elected president
of the United States, he willpardon most of the rioters because he views
them also as political prisoners. There'sa Virginia, Virginia man, Marcus Malley,
who is scheduled to be sentenced nextmonth for assaulting the police capital.
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He's raised more than sixteen thousand dollarsfrom an online campaign and that describes him
as a January six pow and askedfor money for his family. Mally had
a public defender and did not oweany legal fees, and he is asking
what At least he's smart enough tosay, I need the money to feed
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my family. That's not for legalthat's not for legal fees. A prosecutor
wrote, he should not be ableto use his own notoriety gained in the
commission of this crime to capitalize onhis participation. And judges are listening to
this too. So far, onehundred and twenty five thousand dollars I have
been levied in fines against thirty threeriot defendants this year. And on top
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of that, judges are ordering hundredsof these convicted riot to pay more than
half a million dollars in restitution tothe government. So right now we're seeing
these serious, massive charges, verylong prison terms. One just got eighteen
years ahead of the oath keepers andor as the Proud Boys, and as
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their sentence. They also tend tobe just huge prolific fundraisers. Nathaniel de
Grave another one was sentenced to threeyears and was ordered to pay twenty five
thousand dollars and he raised and theprosecutors saying the word incredible. He raised
over one hundred and twenty thousand dollarsin this Give Send Go fundraising and that
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and the description of him is thathe is Beijing Biden's political prisoner in America's
get MO. And the part thatI find just do I use the word
chilling, not really, but certainlydistressing is that these guys and women also
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plead guilty, show remorse, saythey're sorry, actually cooperate with the government,
and then turn around and go outsideand raise money saying they're political prisoners.
I mean, the sheer hypocrisy.But I guess it doesn't matter.
When you are a political prisoner,you'll say anything. It's like you're being
tortured. Same thing if you've beencaught by the enemy during wartime, and
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you'll say anything. And I thinkthat's the way they are portraying it.
Moving to the border, this isan article that was written in the New
York Times by this woman, DarrylLynde. Now to start off with,
and I looked at this and Ithought there were some good points here that
I want to bring up that Ihadn't seen before. Now let's start disclaim
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her time here. She's a seniorfellow at the Immigration or the American Immigration
Council. Let's just say she isvery pro immigration and now particularly a fan
of America, so the American policy, So let's take that into effect.
But she brings up a couple ofpoints that I want to share with you.
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As you know, last month wasthe end of Title forty two,
which allowed the FEDS to expel unauthorizedborder crossers without letting them ask for asylum
based on national security issue. Andthe national security issue was bringing back Title
forty two, which was past nineteenforty four, and in this case it
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was because of health reasons. Itwas COVID. Trump administration said we are
not going to allow people in becauseof the fear of immigrants coming in with
COVID, and that while that soundshorrible, the Biden administration kept on going
with it. So for those people, Oh, the Trump is terrible on
this one. Hey, look atBiden too. He did the same thing
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until the end of Title forty two, which happened last month. So what
is going on? You know thatthere is now an asylum lottery. That's
what's happening. It is a straightout lottery. And this happens to be
one of the fair solutions that areout there. Why because of the mismatch
between the number of people that wantto claim asylum and the government's capacity to
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receive those people. And this becomesa real swirling mess. It becomes a
cyclone of a problem because the answeris to give more assets, more money,
more people. The program expanded toallow people to claim asylum. Well,
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the more people that are allowed toclaim asylum, the more people are
going to come to the border toclaim asylum. And why is that.
Well, because a lot of theworld is a toilet. That's why the
number one that you think that it'dbe Mexico that would be literally providing the
greatest number of immigrants claiming asylum.Well, first of all, that's not
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true because it's almost impossible for aMexican claim asylum. So you have the
number one group of people Venezuelans.Venezuela used to be the richest country in
South America. It was extraordinary andI had the pleasure of going to Venezuela
during that time when it was thisrich, wonderful country. Caracas the capitol,
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I mean, it was like Paris, broad boulevards, extraordinary stores and
people walking up and down the boulevard. It was just amazing, tons of
money because they had oil and lotsof it. Well, then you had
the Chavism and is ration come inelected straight out communist and was elected,
and he became a death spot andhe died of cancer and his hands elected
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replacement was Maduro, who is alsoa straight out communist, nationalized everything.
Anybody with money, anybody with educationleft and now business is a fraction of
what it was. And here iswhy the election keeps ongoing, because the
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number of poor people grows and grows, and the government subsidizes the people who
have no money with bread, subsidizesand with flour, with cooking oil,
gas, gasoline. How much itWhat was the last time I looked at
the price of gas in Venezuela.I think it's like thirty cents a gallon
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or fifteen cents a gallon, completelysubsidized by the government. So you have
these people, and Venezuela is simplyone of the kind trees. You have
Guatemala, you have Enduras, youhave people in the lower part of Mexico
that are trying. There was thattriangle with the three countries coming together.
It is now a desert where itused to be this great agricultural area.
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I mean, it is horrible.So now you have untold number of people
that are coming up and trying toget in the United States. And the
problem with asylum for most of thesepeople is if they're starving, they're not
eligible. Starvation is not an issue. I mean, you could be there
as a skeleton, literally starving todeath, and you try to get into
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the country and you're not gonna doit. It's political persecution. It is
a fear of the narco trafic contentswho have killed half your family. It
is persecution bay based on you beinggay. That's allowed in. So you
go up to the border and youclaim you want asylum, and the problem
is you are not going to getin because this is a lottery and it
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chooses who's allowed to apply for asylum. And hundreds of slots today are assigned
to people waiting on the Mexican sideof the border. They sign up using
the CBP one app run by Customersand Border Protection, and they have every
twenty four hours. There are aboutone hundred slots or a couple hundred slots.
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The chances of getting in are almostimpossible, almost impossible. Now.
The government says that the slots areawarded based on an algorithm that gives more
weight to those people who've been tryingfor an appointment the longest. But a
lot of that is random, alot of that is pure luck. And
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if you don't get it today,so you go on at midnight, and
of course by twelve oh one it'sall filled up. By a twelve and
thirty seconds, it's all filled up. And then you have to go the
next day. And there are peoplethey're waiting weeks and weeks and months and
months, and that's the only wayin. And if you try to go
over illegally, which most people do, that is well you can't. You
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are tossed out of the country andyou can't come in for five years.
So only people who have preregistered forappointments of ports are allowed to seek asylum
without facing other hurdles. And everyonehas to meet a higher standard to number
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one, apply for asylum and facingimmigration judge. And on that one it
can take nine months, two yearsto even face a judge. And that
includes people who cross between ports ofentry. I'm talking about illegally, and
that is unlawful entry and you gettossed out for that. Now, people
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who present themselves at port of entryand lack and they're asking for asylum,
but they don't have an appointment,no chance, no chance. So it
is so difficult. And what isthe Biden administration going to do with that
one? Well, one of theanswers is and I said earlier in the
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monologue is just pour more money,of which the government of course is not
giving the border patrol customers and borderpatrol more money because I also keep in
mind, it's just it's not justpeople crossing the border. There's almost two
billion dollars a day coming into UnitedStates or Mexico Mexico with the trucks and
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the goods that are being shipped,and they have to deal with those two
and keep in mind the amount ofdrugs that are being brought in. I
mean, it is a mess.And the answer is, well, you
know, how much more money canyou pour? And it's the same thing
with homeless. The more let's say, permanent housing that are given to the
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homeless, the more people are goingto be applying for permanent housing. I
mean, it's a constant battle,it really is, and it's all going
to be incremental, although at theborder I don't think that's incremental at all.
Now, it is time for TechTuesday with Rich Damuro all the latest
on gadgets and stuff with KF ViceResident Handsome Nerd. It's Tech Tuesday with
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Rich Jamiro and welcome appward. RichDeMuro rich on Tech every Saturday eleven to
two o'clock here on KFI and hisaddress social address at rich on Tech.
Good morning, rich Good morning toBill Ooh. Let's start with AI that
we've been talking about for months andthere's a lot more conversation going on.
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I just read a story about howAI is now being used, and I
mean being used a lot in theadvertising business, where they're moving fullboard with
AI in terms of graphics, interms of writing copy. And this story
about AI leaders. AI leaders arewarning that the tech could be as dangerous
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as even a pandemic or war.And do you take this as seriously as
they do. I do. Infact, you know, I'm not typically
one of these people who is,you know, put the tinfoil on the
windows when it comes to stuff.But I do believe that AI has been
transformative in the past six months oreight months, that we've seen it in
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a big way, and we arejust at the beginning. And so imagine
the things that people are going tobe using this for. You just said
advertising that just sells us stuff,But imagine when someone is trying to figure
out how they can create a robotwith an AI brain. And I know
It sounds like science fiction, butthat's exactly what you can imagine. Military
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and governments and pretty much anyone willbe interested in creating. And this is
a letter, an open letter fromthe folks set Open Ai, Google,
Deep Mind, and Thropic. Theseare three big AI companies. They're setting
out a new letter today that's warningabout this threat to society basically and saying
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that governments need to take this seriously. I don't think anyone has the answer
as to what we need to dojust yet, it's so early on,
but I think we just need tobe aware of the fact that this has
big, big implications for everyone onthis planet. Has AI been used in
the fair within the farious motives yet, Like we know robocalling, we know
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scams out there, but has AIreached into that world of robo calls or
just outright fraud and scams right Well, we haven't heard any huge, you
know, reports just yet of peopleusing this for malware, but I think
that's where this is headed. Sonot only can AI target use specifically based
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on information that it knows about you, but it can also target your computer
in a much easier way and amuch bigger way than we've seen and so
I think that that's the concern onthat front, because, like you said,
people will be using this for goodstuff, but they're also going to
be using it for really, reallybad stuff. And again we are just
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at the beginning. I mean,these texts that we get that you're worried
about and I'm worried about, arestill pretty basic. But imagine when they've
collected all of the data that theycan find on us online and then they
make that specific for every single personthey target, and it's just someone programming
a tiny you know, a tinyprogram that uses AI to do that.
I mean, it's it's really scarystuff when you talk when I think about
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it. So let me do thisand ask you a question that I've been
thinking about, and that is whenwe talk about science fiction and we talk
about robotics coming in, we talkabout creating the robot. There is the
old maxim Here are the rules ofrobotics harm no human? Just follow number
one and then number three is numberone? Again? Is that a croc
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Well, I mean, look numberone. If you're talking war, then
I don't think that that applies,does it. I don't know. We
build stuff all the time that harmshumans. Yeah, but does a I
do that well? And it's goingto develop so in reality, And obviously
I'm being a little hyperbolic and beinga little science fiction e here, But
in the end, if AI isgoing to be used to create new weaponry,
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create a new ability to deliver thoseweapons, there's no limit to it.
Yeah, and that's the scary part. And also, you know,
you also have to keep in mindthat we're talking about rules that apply to
people that want to follow rules andgovernments that want to follow rules. There's
a lot of people out there thatdon't follow the rules. There's a lot
of people that would be building thisstuff independently and selling this technology to governments
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much much in the same way thatthat happens today. I think the real
danger here is the fact that thisdevelopment has happened so fast, and we've
seen the evolution of AI in somany ways. I mean, if you
look at photos, just photos andvideos, photo already has just had a
huge impact. You know, Adobelast week came out with their solution as
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to how they're going to use AI, and people are posting pictures online that
are just absolutely incredible that they createdin a minute. And so now we're
going to see the same thing withvideo, and it just keeps going from
there. It just keeps keeps building, and every single company is going to
adopt this technology to save money.Every single industry is going to look at
it to see how it can affectthem and affect us, and then of
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course governments and all this other stuffas well. Just wrote an article about
students using AI to write papers,and I mean it happens instantaneously. And
I heard that and there was apoint counterpoint that there are AI program that
can see if AI was written towrite though, if AI was used to
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write those papers, is there validityto that? Have you heard of that?
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I'vegot Oh gosh, I got to
look it up because it's it's ait's a tool that you can put in
I'm almost mentioned this on my radioshow. I didn't get to it.
I've got to look it up.But there is a tool that for students
that write papers, you can literallyjust pop their paper into this tool and
you know, it will tell youif the student wrote this or not.
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And oh, here it is.Here's the tool GPT zero. So GPT
zero dot me. You can takesome text, you can paste it in
there, and it will tell youif chat GBT wrote it, if Bard
wrote it, if an AI plusa human wrote it. And there are
bill at schools across the country rightnow, people dealing with the fact that
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students are writing their papers using this, and the students don't care because they
know that this this is the tablestakes for the future, that you're going
to get a rough raft of whateveryou want and now it's up to you
to kind of make it your own. So in the future it's going to
be not even a big deal thatthis is happening, because we've got to
figure out other ways of evaluating humanbeings. And how many papers we wrote
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and sat down night after night,all right, Rich, we still have
plenty of stuff to talk about.Boarding passes at the boarding gate and I
just sort of started using my iPhoneto do it, although I always press
the wrong button. I have tobring it back up or I will print
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out my ticket, my boarding passat the house on the printer. What's
going on with that? Are theyeven going to allow paper boarding passes anymore?
Well, that's interesting. They haven'ttotally done away with them, and
I'm surprised that I'm actually happy tohear that you still have a printer,
because a lot of people do nothave a printer anymore at home. They're
just they either print at work orthey just don't have one. And you
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know, we've definitely seen them.Mobile boarding pass. A majority of people
use the mobile boarding pass. Butinteresting article out of Wall Street Journal kind
of highlighting the folks who don't wantto use a boarding pass on their phone
or the airlines more importantly, thatare charging if you need to print one
out at the airport. So BreezeAirways three dollars if you want to print
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a boarding pass. Allegiant air fivedollars if you want to charge if you
want to do a boarding pass,unless you're a member of the military Spirit
in Frontier, you might pay asmuch as twenty five dollars if a customer
service rep has to print you aboarding pass. So the moral of the
story here, you don't want tobe nickel and dimed even more than you
already are at the airport printed outat home or if you use the mobile
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boarding pass. The thing that Iwould say, because some people are worried
about the mobile boarding pass with thesignal in the airport or if you're in
a different country. I typically printmine out if I'm going international, just
out of security and safety reasons.But for domestic stuff, if you put
it in Apple wallet or Google wallet, it will work even if you don't
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have a signal to Wi Fi orcellular. Crazy. I mean, it
is completely crazy. So if someoneactually has to print it and it takes
two seconds, but if you goto one of those kiosks and have it
printed, you're okay. Rights evenat Crazy Airlines. Funny you say that
they're actually removing the kiosks that printthough, So Alaska Airlines, for example,
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we're removing the kiosks that would allowyou to self print at the airport.
So the new kiosks are putting inare simply an iPad that only lets
you print your luggage, which,by the way, you are now tagging
yourself, so you can print thatout for free. But of course you'll
pay for the luggage tag. Butyou know they can't. They won't let
you print the boarding pass from thosethose kiosks anymore. Well, they're just
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trying to figure out every way tomake money. And I'm not exaggerating in
terms of using the bathroom Herod's,you know the department store in England,
when Dody Diade's father bought Herod's,they actually were charging a pound to get
into the bathroom, you know,a pound coin clean. If it's clean,
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I'll do it. I'm fine withthat because a lot of times,
you know these places, they justcut off the bathroom. They say,
sorry, no restroom for the public. If I have to pay a buck,
I mean I'm fine with that,Yeah, go ahead. I was
looking at air Fair yesterday and thenew trend with these airlines, and it's
not something that we haven't seen before, but we're seeing more and more of
it is the ultra cheap airline whereliterally you just get a seat and that's
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it and nothing else. I'm talkingthe one I took to Japan zip Air.
It was fantastic, but you onlygot a seat and everything else,
including water bill was a charge.But how much did you pay for it,
even with luggage and drinking a bottleof water? I mean, in
the end, I had to bea whole lot cheaper. Anyway, it
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was. It was incredibly cheap,in fact, for it was a live
flat seat, which you would payI think it was about seven thousand dollars
for a typical airline, and thisone was closer to two thousand and So
when you look at these flights,and I get so many emails from people
that are looking at flights to Tokyothat see my review come up and they
say, Rich, wait, what'sthe catch. There's no catch. It's
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just really inexpensive because you have tobe prepared. If you don't bring something
on that plane and you're not preparedto order something, then you are going
to starve because there is no nothingfree handed out whatsoever. Yeah, but
when you buy a sandwich. Oneof the things I did notice that when
you buy a sandwich on the airline'seight nine ten bucks, it's pretty good.
Actually, yeah, they've gotten alot better. I think I look
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forward to some of the food onthe planes. I don't mind it,
but here's the thing, so you'repaying for it, so it's a little
bit better. But you know,there are so many levels of flying at
this point. I think the fastestgrowing area though, are really these airlines
that people I was just looking lastnight. You could go to Europe on
this airline called Norse and it waslike I think it was one hundred and
ninety five dollars from LA to Londonone hundred and ninety five dollars for I
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think a one way ticket on that. Yeah, but you're not lying flat
and you're really next to the personthat is next to the person right.
Well, yes, but here's thething. They're flying these seven eighty sevens,
these Dreamliners, which are nice planes. I mean, yeah, they're
they're putting a lot of seats inthem. But you know, that's a
decent plane to fly across the Atlantic. And also, why not save your
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money for when you get there.It's not that bad of a deal for
a lot of people. Yeah,that's true. At the end of it,
you're eleven hours and you have thrombosisand you're about to die because of
a blood clot. Small potatoes,small, small price to pay for the
you know, to see the changingof the guard there. Yeah, and
a blood clot. Let's not forgetthat. Okay. Next, we're gonna
talk about Apple and some news outthere, and of course Apple being Apple,
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we have no idea what it reallyis. But the rumor, what's
the rumor? I like that youpreface hit with that. Yes, we
never Apple never cans anything until It'sup on stage on June fifth, which
is next Monday, or this Monday, whatever you want to look at it.
This Monday coming up, big eventat the Apple headquarters. Widely expected
to unveil their virtual reality slash augmentedreality headset. And we have a lot
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of headsets in the marketplace right now. Of course, this is Apple,
they will do things a little bitdifferently. They will get the developers behind
it. It's expected to cost aboutthree thousand dollars. We don't know when
it will go on sale or ifwe will even get to touch this thing
play with it. We don't know. But the reality is this might be
one of the biggest launches for Applein a long time. If this headset
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is shown off next week. Howdid they keep that secret? I mean,
you have thousands of people that arein on it, or at least
hundreds of people, and for somereason we're not seeing one that's already been
leaked. Yeah, I mean,there's definitely been no pictures that I've seen,
but there's been a lot of informationthat we've seen. But the you
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know it, But the reality is, you know, there's a lot of
people that stand to make a lotof money on this thing, and they're
not going to spill the secrets.It's just people that you know, maybe
passing through that get access to someof this data. Some of the suppliers
over in China, we see alot of leaks through them. But no
matter what, it's rumored to bethree thousand dollars, it's rumored to be
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good but heavy, but expensive,and the battery will sit on your side
instead of on the headphones are theheadset itself because that's the way that some
of the other ones do it,and it just became too bulky apparently for
Apple. But it's not apparently it'snot where they want it to be,
Like, it's not perfect, butthey just need to get this thing out
of the gate so that they canstart to get people to adopt this technology
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in a big way. Yeah,I mean three thousand dollars. How does
that compare with Oculus and other VRheadsets? I mean the Oculus. You
can get an Oculus. They've actuallyraised the price on the Oculus last year.
I think it's about four hundred nowand then and then Oculus has a
high end version that is about fifteenhundred, So this is double the price
of the most expensive headset out there, but it's Apple, and you know
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they will have adoption onlike these otherheadsets which are good, but they haven't
seen the broad broad adoption. Ithink Apple, with their stores, people
can go in test them out,try them out, see what they can
do, and then you know,save up form. All right, Thank
you rich This Saturday eleven to twoo'clock at rich On Tech. Have a
good one, Rich Thanks Bill.This is a little bit more serious,
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and this has to do with vanishingbeaches here in California. And this is
the story out of the Orange CountyRegister because it deals with Orange County Newport
beats, for example, some ofthe priceest coastline homes in the country,
and there aren't going to be manybeaches left. As a matter of fact,
there is a study that just cameout and it was a report released
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by the United States Geological Survey andit says by twenty one, the modeling
that's already been done estimates that twentyfive to seventy percent of California's eleven hundred
miles of coastline may be completely erodeddue to sea level rise scenarios. Now
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for those people, and we hearthese dire predictions all the time. We
only have five years until the tippingpoint in terms of climate change. We
only have ten years by twenty thirty. By twenty thirty five will be over
the edge, and there's nothing canbe done about it. I believe we're
already there. Moreover, if wearen't already there, we are not going
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to straighten this out. Because fossilfuels still being used by many, many
countries around the world, China beingone of them, even though they're ahead
of us in many of the technologies. India using coal like crazy, and
we're talking about what two three billionpeople those two countries, and more coal
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fire plants are being built every singleday in those two countries and they haven't.
And these third world countries have ahell of an argument because they're saying,
wait a minute, you the UnitedStates and other industrialized country built these
huge, successful economies on coal,and now you want us not to use
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coal, and we're trying, we'restriving to have this industrial revolution of our
own. We want to reach thoselevels of industrialization. Good argument, it
really is. So what is goingon is you have Well, there was
just a meeting and it had todo with the officials of the Orange County
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Coastline. Folks. It was aSmart Coast California policy summit in Newport Beach
and they're trying just to deal withit. How do you deal with the
coastline simply disa peering Well here tofour. What they used to do is
just bring in sand. Coastline goes. You bring in a ton of sand
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or tons of sand. But youknow what happens. It disappears again because
you have rising sea levels and theocean ghosts farther in. And are you
ready for this? One of thereal answers that they came up with.
And boy, I always joked aboutthis, except this is absolutely real,
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and that is homes that are alongthe coast new homes should be built on
stilts like they do in Louisiana.And the buy you and you go,
well, when we've reached the pointwhen you have fourteen million dollars home in
Newport Beach on the water, andyou raise it, you buy it,
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and you're gonna build a new home, which is the only thing you can
do because of course there's no land, and there are people wealthy enough to
do that. Can you imagine this? You can get a permit, but
you have to build a home onstilts. I mean, come on.
But they're saying, this is theUS Geological Survey. This is real stuff.
At the turn of the century,at the turn of the century,
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twenty one hundred, you're gonna seeseventy percent of the coastline having literally just
disappeared. I'm not buying any coastcoastal homes. I've been saying that for
a very very long time. Nodoubt. We've all heard of Airbnb.
Have you ever rented from Airbnb?I have. I don't do it anymore
because it's just too damn expensive withall the craziness. I think I'm better
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off at a hotel. But it'sstill huge Airbnb and Verbo or vrbo of
rebo, and so we know aboutthat. Now. There is an app
called swimplely swi mply, and whatit does is allow homeowners to rent out
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their pools to strangers. So youown a swimming pool, or someone who
doesn't own a swimming pool wants tohave a swim party, for example,
No they're six year old, they'retwelve year old, or just spending an
afternoon and you don't want to goto a public pool, because public pools
are completely disgusting. You know,you just don't know, well, you
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do know, it's in the water, and there's lots of people there,
so a lot of families aren't goingto let their kids anywhere. You're a
public pool. So what do youdo during the summer and you don't have
a pool? You're run one.You rent the pool, and you rent
the pool over there, let's sayeven a nicer neighborhood, nice big pool,
great outdoors. And as you canimagine, this is the story out
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of the Washington Post. Montgomery Countyin Maryland, a nice upscale county,
an area that fairly wealthy people live, is looking at this and saying,
hold on, we have to regulatethis. And this would be the first
county, the first governmental entity inthe nation to regulate rental pools. Because
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this is brand new. People comeup with apps all the time, and
all of a sudden, you're going, where are the laws that deal with
this? Because laws always follow technology. Technology is first, and then how
to deal with it is second.For example, the huge, far bigger
story than this, it's how we'regoing to regulate AI. And in front
(50:32):
of Congress, the CEO of chatGPT begged Congress to regulate the industry.
He said, you have to regulatethis so on a much lower level.
This has to do with renting pools. A Chevy Chase resident who went in
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front of the city council said,our entire block has been disturbed. It's
like having a pool club on thestreet. And already dozens of pools around
Maryland, and this is Montgomery County, the biggest county in Maryland. They've
been listed for rent on swimp Lely, which was launched in twenty twenty as
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people sought alternatives to public school publicpools. A lot of them are shut
down because of the pandemic. Andyou look at the successes of apps like
Airbnb and Uber and so you knowmuch money these people get for renting out
their pool anywhere from twenty five toone hundred dollars an hour. So you
went to pool for four hours,three hours, Okay, there's some money,
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and of course it's cash, andwhat people do is well, I
don't take advantage of it. Now, I've had some swim parties before.
I'll tell you the danger of thisstuff too. When you have a lot
of people, a lot of kidsswimming. And you know, many drownings
take place in pools full of kidsand parents there because no one pays attention.
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If some kid is drowning at theother end, someone's gonna jump in.
You're not paying attention because too manykids flopping around. I think I've
had three pool parties at my housefor my daughters when they were eight nine
years old. You know what Idid. I hired a lifeguard. I
hired a lifeguard to walk around withthose lifeguard floaty things and there was just
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no issue. And there was onekid that was flopping around a little bit
of trouble and a lifeguard jumped in, Not that there would have been a
big, huge deal, but jumpedright in because it can be dangerous.
Oh. The other thing I wantto point out is look at your insurance
policy at home, and if someonegets hurt, some kid drowns as a
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result of you renting out the pool, what do you think your insurance company
is going to say, no,thank you. So you know what Swimply
did, very smart of them todo it. They have their own insurance
policy. If someone rents out ofpool and some kid gets hurt drowns,
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then the insurance policy will pay offup to a million dollars. Now,
there are neighbors around the other issueshow much noise these things make. Again,
have you ever gone to or helda swim party with a bunch of
kids. Yeah, it gets prettyloud, and you've got parking, and
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you've got the noise, and youhave the neighbors going crazy, and so
it is going to what's going tohappen? Well, chevy Chase is considering
literally asking the county just outlaw theserentals altogether because they don't want to.
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These folks don't want their neighborhoods tobecome business centers, and that's what happens.
And there are a couple of instanceswhere kids have drowned in a through
the Swimpley app. Last June,there was a seven year old that was
drowned and still is under internal investigationby Swimpley. An Swimpley says that they've
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implemented some changes for safety purposes.For example, the company instructs hosts on
basic safety measures when they sign upfor the app, but does not give
specific safety instructions. Bottom line,here's a new one. Rent out your
pool makes sense, guys, acouple of extra dollars. So what kid
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drowns once in a while, Smallprice to pay. Mark Thompson, Marla
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